My phone erupts into Darth Vader’s ‘Imperial March’. I scoop Charlie off the polished concrete floor and lower him into the shopping trolley, shove AirPods into my ears and brace myself.
After a week of greyish cotton wool blanketing the city sky, an infinite stretch of clear blue finally greeted me as I waited to cross Seventh Avenue.
Like many others, I did not see it coming. But William is a scientist, and he saw it coming; he saw it sooner than I did, is what I mean.
Death always visited me in August. A slow and delicious month we turned into something swift and brutal. The change, quick as a card trick.
One violet twilight, I sat motionless on the grassy edge of a small neighboring meadow.
Shane Warne’s passing on 4 March 2022 was a stunning moment for many Australians, who will always recall where they were when they heard the news about his heart attack in the island resort on Koh Samui, Thailand.
One bright April afternoon in 1978, I attended a baseball game at Jingu Stadium in downtown Tokyo.
“Edi. Are you sleeping?” I’m whispering, even though the point is to wake her up.
At some point when I was a child, my father started using a cane to keep himself balanced when he walked.
“Anything strange or startling?” That’s how my da, Bob, opens our conversations.
Bryce Courtenay will always be remembered as the writer who created The Power of One.
There’s a hospital room at the end of a life where someone, right in the middle of the floor, has pitched a green tent.
Suzanne Liu lived for days like this, days when her world seemed like a great game and the sweet smell of opportunity and cash hung in the air like lavender and sage.
Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid, was one of the few actors I recognised when we started making the Potter films, thanks to his roles in GoldenEye and Cracker.
